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Tokyo: Pair nabbed over excessive touting in Ueno

By Tokyo Reporter Staff on November 22, 2018

TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested two men for excessive touting in a business district in Taito Ward, reports TV Asahi (Nov. 21).

On Tuesday night, officers apprehended Kazuyuki Osanai, 51, and a 36-year-old Chinese national for persistently calling out to pedestrians in the Ueno area. “In the mood for companionship from a lovely young lady?” they reportedly asked passersby.